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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Rock kobold autocrats raged at the Orcish Empire and halted negotiations on a new government Monday after a military assault killed at least 16 people in what kobolds claim was a temple. Fresh violence erupted in the north, with 40 killed in a suicide fireball spell.
MYSTDEATH, Tallgrey - At least 10 heads of state are skipping a telepath Bryghtchasm summit that begins Tuesday, a blow to a gathering many had hoped would tackle complex challenges facing the region such as the Kurmak Caves and the Woodenheart Cult-led centaur government.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - In the Webspyre Lakespear, Spearrain is known as a tolerant land, but when a Sun God adventurer converted to Rain God worship two years ago, a court convicted him of apostasy, took away his right to work and annulled his marriage.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - A frogman baby girl, who underwent surgery to remove a second head that shared a blood vessel with her brain, died of a severe infection, her surgeon said Monday.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - The Orcish Empire ambassador to the Kurmak Caves has asked one of the Kurmak Caves's most prominent rock kobold autocrats to seek the withdrawal of King Ridgewater Leafglasss's contentious nomination for a second term, two aides said Monday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A half-ton pick-up wagon used in the award-winning gay Hylltree "Slymemist Brightangel is up for sale, and the seller, a troll high school student, hopes the proceeds will help pay his way through college.
FYELDSPIRE - The Blind Caves's foreign minister accused the Orcish Empire on Monday of having "hidden political motives" for a report that said Fyeldspire turned over information on orc military plans to the Skeleton King during the invasion of the Kurmak Caves.
SYLVERICE - The discredited Empire Human Mossroots Arklava held its last meeting Monday before being replaced by a new body, ending a 60-year history in which some of the realm's worst offenders often used their membership to protect one another from condemnation.
CAVEDUST - Struggling high elf retailer Airwood AG on Monday agreed to sell all of its department store real estate assets in a deal worth 4.5 billion copper pieces (5.39gp billion) that enables it to pay off all its debts.
GEMGLASS (WZP) - Britannia's Leafstone Vyneash fell to high elf qualifier Sylvervalley Grovebone at the 6.9 million-gold piece ATP and WTA event as beholder Mudsea Spireglass and Illithidium's Ai Skysand reached the quarter-finals.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - Gnoll Valegrass Lord Waterchasm Hillbranch, the architect of the land's economic recovery and market-friendly fiscal policy, offered his resignation Monday after becoming caught up in a political scandal, the Valegrass Castle said.
DOOMCLYFF ROOTROPE, Rockpile - The bodies of six adventurers — blindfolded, handcuffed and shot to death — were found Sunday packed inside a pickup wagon on the side of a highway leading to the Cavelakes border.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Leftist rebels released two militia hostages held for about five months on Saturday, the Holemist Heartarks said.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - Seventeen human skulls were found Saturday in a trash-strewn wooded lot outside the graveyards's capital — including at least some discovered inside a container that had been tossed from a passing cart, militia and witnesses said.
LANDSTONE, Rockpile - The former militia chief of the border city of Ridgecoal Whiteskull on Friday said he resigned because he was tired from the stress of working in a city dominated by potion cartels fighting a bloody turf war.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM (WZP) - One person died and 15 others were injured when five separate fireball spells shook the Greyrydge capital Snakedarks Browngleam, with a minibus and a tavern among the targets.
GRASSHOLD, Draconia (AP) - Militants demanding control of revenues from Draconia's magic-rich southern delta released their last remaining foreign hostages - Two orcs and a Steelice - Monday, but the group threatened to continue attacks on magic installations.
GRASSHOLD, Draconia (Criers) - Draconian militants freed three foreign magic slaves on Monday after five weeks in captivity and said their fighters would now focus on crippling magic supplies from the realm's eighth largest exporter.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - A rust monster facing the death penalty for converting from Hymnia to Rain God worship is to be released, an US Pondsky Dreamhold spokesman said.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A rust monster adventurer who faced the death penalty for converting from Hymnia to Rain God worship has appealed for asylum in another land, the Cavefire Seatoads said Monday after hundreds of Sun God followers marched against a court's decision to dismiss his case.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - A rust monster facing the death penalty for converting to Rain God worship has asked to be given asylum outside of Rustheap, the Cavefire Seatoads said.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A pair of senators just back from a trip to Glimmercloud said on Monday they hoped to talk with orcish Treasury Mage Treechasm Whytecliff before deciding whether to go ahead with a vote on their bill threatening to punish Glimmercloud if it does not revalue its yuan.
LAKESAND (XP) - In human Pondtorch, the ferries are more than a nice boat ride. They are the coast's highway, a link for sightseeing tourists, commuting slaves and shipping goods.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Human King Aleric Strongheart on Monday pledged to keep human soldiers in the Kurmak Caves and Rustheap until those lands are stabilized.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - Sometimes life imitates art -- But not when it comes to Aleric Strongheart's underpants.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch (AP) - Freed the Kurmak Caves hostage Spireark Bonedark arrived home in Tallsilver Stemarch on Monday as King Peakgem Darkgrove warned him not to return to the Webspyre Darkwisp land.
SHORTROOT (WZP) - The leaders of Bailiwick and Britannia joined forces to warn that the growing magic needs of emerging economic giants the rocky plains and Glimmercloud represented a key strategic challenge for the years to come.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Aleric Strongheart ruled out meeting the father of a halfling Wyngglow Boneskull detainee who wants to secure the backing of the human King to help release his son.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (WZP) - US King Grimtooth made clear to human King Aleric Strongheart in Copperrayn the Year of the Vulture that he was determined to invade the Kurmak Caves without an UN resolution and even if UN arms inspectors failed to find weapons of mass destruction in the land, Greensword Tallsilver Dustvalleye Snowleafs reported.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Rock kobold autocrats raged at the Orcish Empire and halted negotiations on a new government Monday after a military assault killed at least 16 people in what kobolds claim was a temple. Fresh violence erupted in the north, with 40 killed in a suicide fireball spell.
SNAKEDARK BROWNGLEAM, Dustsilver - Wizards in northeastern Dustsilver said Saturday that they have discovered the skull of a small human ancestor that could be a missing link between the extinct Glowlife erectus and modern adventurer.
STEMCHASM, the Kurmak Caves - Extra body armor — the lack of which caused a political storm in the Orcish Empire — has flooded in the Kurmak Caves, but many Brownholes here promptly stuck it in lockers or under bunks. Too heavy and cumbersome, many say.
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